WP’s post pandemic playbook: The future can be as bright as we want it to be

There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed higher education globally. Despite experiencing a paradigm shift of proportions unseen for decades, Australia’s widening participation (WP) community and its agenda remains resolute and committed to righting the wrongs of educational inequality. Again, we find ourselves on the cusp of change with borders reopening and easing restrictions across the country. We are at a most peculiar junction — a quiet pause to take in the magnitude of change across the sector, to assess how well our fast-adapted WP efforts fared and to ponder what the new post-pandemic WP landscape will look like.